Chair report Committee on Earth Observation Satellites WGISS

Chair report Committee on Earth Observation Satellites WGISS Working Group for Information Systems & Services Andrew Mitchell - NASA WGISS-44 Beijing, China 25 th September 2017

CEOS SIT Technical Workshop – VC/WG Day 19 th of September 2017 Full exploitation of EO data requires critical user feedback informing current implementations and future directions Future Data Architectures - CARD 4 L-compliant data feed FDAs - MRI identifies good practices for implementation of multisensor data sets Moderate Resolution Interoperability - Addresses how to combine data / scientific methods to maximize interoperability - CARD 4 L is the first step - MRI provides feedback to CARD 4 L CEOS Analysis Ready Data for Land - Product family specifications facilitate uptake of EO data by the user community

FDA Themes and Outcomes • • • CEOS Analysis Ready Data (ARD) o Implement and provision CEOS Analysis Ready Data for Land (CARD 4 L)-compliant products o Advance ARD for marine and atmosphere domains Interoperable Open Source Tools o Continue supporting the CEOS Data Cube (CDC) initiative o Demonstrate new technologies through ongoing support of ‘pilot projects’ and consideration of alternate candidate architectures Data, Processing, and Architecture Interface Standards o • Analytical Processing Capabilities o • Develop standards for pixel-level data discovery, access, and common analytical processing requests (e. g. , cloud free mosaics of ARD) exploiting EO satellite data among various CEOS exploitation platforms Prototype portable web-based analytical processing APIs/Web Services that work across CEOS exploitation platforms in full computing environments for time series and other analysis User Metrics o Develop a data use metrics framework through which agencies can contribute to how EO data is being used, rather than just downloaded data quantities 3

2018 CEOS Chair – European Commission Access to Copernicus data and information and additional data, in a flexible tool environment for data exploitation – introducing Copernicus DIAS for CEOS • A number of partnership approaches with large industrial players in the cloud/data domain are currently being trialled by CEOS agencies. o In 2018 the Commission in cooperation with ESA and EUMETSAT is launching Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) that aim at facilitating access, further processing and integration of Copernicus data and information with other data sources in a cloud environment without having to pay for the storage of Copernicus data and information. • The Commission proposes to organise a workshop where the DIAS and in particular their added value service offerings are presented. This workshop should also allow exchanging lessons learnt from other initiatives underway.

Connected Data Assets Success Stories Users of WGISS Connected Data Assets o Cove (MDA – Radarsat and INPE CBRS 2) o GEOSS Evolve – Data Access Broker (DAB) o GEO Portal o AMERIGEOSS Data and Services Portal o ? ?

Participation at Recent Meetings • The CWIC Team participated in the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) Workshop/API Plugfest in Denver, CO on May 1517. o During the workshop, attendees used geospatial Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from the GEO Data Access Broker (DAB), NOAA, NASA, USGS, FEMA, EPA, USDA and CEOS (CWIC) to provide various data and service resources of selected thematic areas (Water, Environment, Agriculture and Hazard/Disaster) in the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Geoplatform • WGISS (Richard Moreno-CNES) gave a presentation during the GEO Data Provider’s Workshop in April 2017 on the GEO/GCI Success story of GCI-CEOS Interoperability Achievements and Collaboration. o He presented on how WGISS has made over 300 million CEOS data resources accessible to GEO via recent developments in the WGISS interoperable standards architecture with IDN, Fed. EO, and CWIC.

WGISS participation in Next. GEOSS • Invited presenter to WGISS-43 • Richard Moreno (CNES) representing WGISS on the Next. GEOSS Advisory Board • Beginning dialogue with Next. GEOSS on federated authentication o WGISS 44 Federated Authentication Session

Technology Webinars 1. Relevancy Ranking of Data Search Results o 14 th of March 2017 2. Data Cubes for Large Scale Data Analytics o 19 th of June 2017 3. Burgeoning Role of Python for Earth Observation Data Analysis o 22 nd of August 2017

WGISS Approved Standards • CEOS is not a standards body but WGISS partnerships have led to the development of standards endorsed by standards bodies like Open Geospatial Consortium - OGC (Open. Search) and International Organization for Standardization - ISO (Preservation) o ISO recently approved a new work item proposal to begin the development of ISO 19165 -2 (Geographic information – Preservation of digital data and metadata – Part 2: Content specifications for Earth observation data and derived digital products)

st 31 CEOS Plenary th th 18 – 20 of October Rapid City, South Dakota, USA

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CEOS 2017 -2019 Work Plan Action Items assigned to WGISS

Objective/Deliverable Projected Background Information Status Completion Date DATA-8: Improve WGISS Q 3 2017 Consolidation of current This is an ongoing activity being led Interoperability Standards CWIC/Fed. EO/IDN overall by the WGISS System Level Team Date needs Architecture architecture to address which includes partners from CWIC, updating in identified issues including Fed. EO and IDN. CEOS Work duplicate datasets holdings plan DATA-9: ECVs/CDRs Discovery and Access through WGISS Systems Q 3 2017 Date needs updating in CEOS Work plan Facilitate discoverability Once WGClimate has completed and accessibility of ECV their (meta) gap-analysis across the Products and space-born Carbon ECVC, WGISS will begin the CDRs relevant for the longer objective of data CEOS Carbon Action via discoverability and access. WGISS Interoperability Web based ECV Inventory V 2. 0 will Systems & Standards be published in October 2017 (Fed. EO/CWIC/IDN, http: //climatemonitoring. info/ Open. Search). Represents the first baseline. Will be updated once a year.

Objective/Deliverable Projected Background Information Completion Date DATA-10: Reference model Q 4 2017 Consolidate a reference for data stewardship model that provides planning and guidelines and implementation recommendations for the preservation and improvement of data including a roadmap for scientific data stewardship improvement; DATA-11: Technology Ongoing WGISS will host at least one Exploration webinars and workshop annually to serve workshops as a forum for exchange of technical information and lessons-learned experience about current, trending and future software technologies, services and other WWW / Internet related software technologies. Status In progress by ESA’s Long Term Data Preservation (LTDP) Working Group. Complete Three webinars held in 2017. The webinars were recorded and a Youtube link to the recording was made available on the WGISS website

Objective/Deliverable Projected Completion Date DATA-12: CEOS data holdings reported in GEO Status Ongoing Provide support to GEO in Holding regular meetings with their efforts of reconciling GEO Data Access Broker (GEODAB) metrics of CEOS data team to improve data discoverability holdings provided through and access of CEOS data in GEO. WGISS interoperable Providing new support for standards and systems. incremental harvesting of collection metadata from IDN, in response to the requests from GEODAB team. Ongoing As the IDN contains New entries were added to the Open. Search endpoints for International Directory Network (IDN) data access and is also the from ESA, EUMETSAT, ISRO, and link with GCI, it is JAXA datasets. essential that all CEOS Agencies keep information on the data up-to-date in the IDN. DATA-2: Full representation of CEOS Agency datasets in the IDN and accessible via supported WGISS standards Background Information

Objective/Deliverable FDA-: 6 Technical best practices relating to future data architectures opportunities Projected Completion Date Background Information Status Q 4 2017 WGISS will ensure A FDA Tiger Team (Andy Mitchell – Date needs necessary structures are NASA, Jono. Ross - Geo. Science updating in established to enable Australia, Bianca Hoersch – ESA, CEOS Work sharing of lessons learnt Rob Woodcock - CSIRO, Brian plan and practices relating to the Killough - SEO) has been formed to exploitation of the technical do the analysis and writing of opportunities identified in the materials of the FDA Strategic interim FDA report. Assessment Survey. In particular, this first analysis is looking to present WGISS will present at least the findings surrounding the question one ‘best practice’ document ‘What should CEOS agencies do for endorsement at the 31 st together’ in regards to FDA. The CEOS Plenary Meeting. findings will be presented at the SIT 32 meeting in Paris. The objectives and implementation planning will be presented at the CEOS Plenary.

Objective/Deliverable Projected Background Information Status Completion Date CARB-15: Carbon data portal Q 4 2017 Implement a carbon data Working with Mark Dowell (CEOS portal to facilitate the Carbon lead) and Pascal Le. Comte discoverability and (WG Climate Chair), WGISS will accessibility of ECV begin defining a preliminary set of products and space-borne “requirements” for a future Carbon CDRs. The portal is Portal. WGISS will start with the designed with serviceinitial list of ECVs that are key for oriented architecture and Carbon and start putting together a follows the principles list of relevant data collections from outlined by the GEOSS identified data providers. Community Portal white paper. The portal will A prototype portal was developed seamlessly access data both and will be demonstrated this week. in CWIC and Fed. EO to provide necessary data and services to the carbon science community of both CEOS and GEOSS.